William Shakespeare's Hamlet by Sean Mcevoy
William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world since it was first performed, fascinating generations of audiences and critics alike.
Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's remarkable play offers:
- extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to the present
- annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself
- cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
- suggestions for further reading.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
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William Shakespeare's Othello
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John Milton's Paradise Lost
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper
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Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
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The Poems of W.B. Yeats
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J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
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Kate Chopin's The Awakening
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The Poems of John Keats
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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
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The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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E.M. Forster's A Passage to India
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D.H. Lawrence
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Ted Hughes
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Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
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Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
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Richard Wright's Native Son
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Charles Dickens's Bleak House
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John Milton
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Jane Austen's Emma
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William Shakespeare's King Lear
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Thomas Hardy
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus
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Walt Whitman's Song of Myself
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Jane Austen
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Robert Browning
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Charles Dickens's David Copperfield
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Byron
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
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Ian McEwan's Enduring Love
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Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist
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William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
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House Of Mirth
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Martin Amis
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Toni Morrison
Sean McEvoy is an English teacher at Brighton's Varndean College and Murray Edwards College in Cambridge. Shakespeare: The Essentials and Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist are two of his many publications on the theater.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780415314336 |
| ISBN 10 | 041531433X |
| Title | William Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| Author | Sean Mcevoy |
| Series | Routledge Guides To Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-03-23 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |